What are you going for collection wise?
- Thread starter Jamal
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Just today I was talking to a guy about all the folks we know who are trying to collect the top 100.
They get a Joel Whitburn book, and start buying 45s and crossing them off.
At times in my life I have tried to be a completest about some label or artist.
These days I buy what I hopes will sell and I will be happy to live with if it doesn't.
They get a Joel Whitburn book, and start buying 45s and crossing them off.
At times in my life I have tried to be a completest about some label or artist.
These days I buy what I hopes will sell and I will be happy to live with if it doesn't.
I don't really have a goal to collect "this amount of records" or anything like that. Whenever I go looking for records, I just buy what sounds good that I know I will revisit time and time again. I've had friends who've splurged on records because they had this killer break or because they knew that someone sampled from it, but they would never listen to it ever again because the rest of the album was nothing worth mention. But I typically go for Christian and Female folk, soundtracks, easy listening/exotica, jazz, country and rock. And of course those surprises you find in the dollar bin.
I remember doing a couple of seminars in the early 90's with Professor Don Jacobs (NRR) and he offered me some thoughts on why he was wearing a white belt as a 10th degree black belt, one of the things he stated was that regardless of what rank he currently was, he approaches every day as though he has the same amount to learn as the first day he ever walked into a dojo, this philosophy is what I use to approach most things in life including records/music. I try to keep away from the collector mentality and even though I have been known to get obsessive over finding a record, I never let them get in the way of family/friends. That aside what I tend to buy when it comes to records varies a lot, some times I will go months only buying jazz, or hiphop or soul or afro, and other times it is really a mixed bag.
Trying to have shelves deep with 60s into late 70s soul, jazz, Brazilian, psych, and Krautrock, peppered with favorites from other genres like reggae, Bollywood, folk, hip-hop, "world," as well as a healthy chunk of records that I actually like that were made by friends.
Very few 45s and very few one-trackers; going for a collection built on a foundation of lps that please me from start to finish.
Very few 45s and very few one-trackers; going for a collection built on a foundation of lps that please me from start to finish.
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